Lenovo Pre-instaling adware/spam - Superfish - powerd by VisualSearch

First thing i done was download chrome and already noticed when i google search, adware adverts appear into the search results.

These are cleverly designed to fit into the search results to make them appear to look normal.

So today i got some time to investigate and narrowed it down to a piece of software called Superfish. I check the install date and ......its the 1 month before purchase when all the other lenovo bloatware was installed.

Lenovo why are you adding adware to your y50 that hijacks search results on any browser ?

First thing i done was download chrome and already noticed when i google search, adware adverts appear into the search results.

These are cleverly designed to fit into the search results to make them appear to look normal.

So today i got some time to investigate and narrowed it down to a piece of software called Superfish. I check the install date and ......its the 1 month before purchase when all the other lenovo bloatware was installed.

Lenovo why are you adding adware to your y50 that hijacks search results on any browser ?

It appears that you had what is considered a Potentially Unwanted Program on there. Please see THIS article for more information. There are several simple tools that can be used to remove PUP's. That makes it easier than reinstalling Windows. If you need more information on how to remove one or more PUP's please post back and I'll be glad to help you.

Got this on the Z40 too. Its bad enough that this crap messes with search results but we had it corrupting some web sites as well. JetBlue and kbb,com wouldn't render correctly and it appears the PC was badly infected with a virus.

I'm sorry that you had to deal with a virus. Other than the Superfish app which may be considered a potentially unwanted application, do you recall what the virus was and which security scanner identified and cleaned it?